Cannes Court Métrage 2019: The Short Films Selection

A look at the 11 short films competing for the prestigious Palme d'Or and the 17 films from the Cinéfondation

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The 72nd Cannes Film Festival has announced the lineup of Cannes Court Métrage 2019. The programme features 11 short films (9 works of fictions, 1 documentary and 1 animation), from Albania, Argentina, France, Finland, Greece, Israel, Ukraine, Sweden and USA. The selection committee has viewed 4240 shorts. High-profile films in the lineup include The Nap…

Apr 19, 2019

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Blue Screen – by Riccardo Bolo & Alessandro Arfuso

A documentary directed by the android filmmaker Mk3, found in an old VHS cassette, tells the rebellion of the robots against human domination

15 – 20 | 2017 | Archive Footage | Dystopia | Italy | Sci-Fi

“If the images of the present don’t change, then change the images of the past.” Blue Screen opens with this thrilling and prophetic quote from Chris Marker and yes, this is an exciting example of dystopian sci-fi made in Italy. Directors Riccardo Bolo and Alessandro Arfuso have used archival & found footage: this short was…

Apr 18, 2019

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MiMo – Milano Mobile Film Festival: How to Make a Short on Your Smartphone

The second edition of the mobile festival will end on June 8-9 and the winners will be awarded with... a personalized plant!

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MiMo – Milano Mobile Film Festival is the first mobile festival in Italy. It takes place in the inspiring setting of the historic center of Milan and it’s dedicated to works – videos and photos – made exclusively with mobile devices as smartphones, tablets, action cameras, and drones. As the French counterpart Mobile Film Festival,…

Apr 17, 2019

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Prey – by Aćim Vasic

The perfect night of a predator turns out as a veritable nightmare

2018 | 5 - 10 | France | Gender | Live-Action | Thriller

The twist, the sudden and surprising turn, is quite often what makes a short film memorable. It is the case of Prey, short film directed by Aćim Vasic which ironically addresses the difficult (and very serious) theme of violence against women. Vasic deals with this topic at the time of #MeToo and Time’s Up, but…

Apr 16, 2019

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The Short Films of Agnès Varda

An overview of some of the French New Wave filmmaker's most remarkable short films

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Probably one of the most remarkable traits of Agnès Varda’s filmography is that she never cared too much for the format of her films. She really wasn’t big on conventions. She once said: “Not even the least important of the painters or the writers have someone imposing to them the measure of their canvas, nor…

Apr 14, 2019

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A look at the 11 short films competing for the prestigious Palme d'Or and the 17 films from the Cinéfondation

A documentary directed by the android filmmaker Mk3, found in an old VHS cassette, tells the rebellion of the robots against human domination

15 – 20 | 2017 | Archive Footage | Dystopia | Italy | Sci-Fi

The second edition of the mobile festival will end on June 8-9 and the winners will be awarded with... a personalized plant!

The perfect night of a predator turns out as a veritable nightmare

2018 | 5 - 10 | France | Gender | Live-Action | Thriller

An overview of some of the French New Wave filmmaker's most remarkable short films

On Replay

Spirit of Berlin (July 1945)

An exceptional montage of the semi-destroyed city made with rare archival materials, in colors and HD.

Envelope

An innovative thriller starring Kevin Spacey, set in the Russia's Cold War era.

The Driving Seat – by Phil Lowe

The hilarious attempt of a middle aged couple to put a spark back in their marriage

10 Animated Shorts That Made the Oscars 2017 Shortlist

The Academy has announced the 10 semifinalists for this year's animated short Oscar race

The Sand Storm

A sci-fi dystopian tale set in Beijing during a water shortage. Starring Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, the short led to some controversies during its development.

(Italiano) Good Short Films presenta la prima Private View all’iQOS Embassy di Milano

The Arab Series #3: War On Famous Canvas

Syrian war scenes swarm the famous paintings of Leonardo Da Vinci, Salvador Dalí, Pieter Brueghel and Paul Gauguin

Oscars 2018: 10 Documentary Shorts Finalists

Like the nominees in the feature-length Best Documentary category, these 10 films feature an array of powerful subjects

Similo

A sci-fi romance set in a dystopian future questions about artificial love and the future of humanity. (NSFW)

Oscars 2018: The 10 Animated Shorts Finalists

Here are the magnificent ten finalists for this year’s Academy Awards: What is new is that 5 of these are available online

Uncanny Valley

In the slums of the future, virtual reality junkies satisfy their violent impulses in online entertainment.

The Most Astounding Fact

“What’s the most astounding fact you can share with us about the universe?” The astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson answers.

The Robbery – by Jim Cummings

After Thunder Road, another dark comedy where a robbery doesn't go so well

ZIMNIK – The Ice Road

A trip along the Zimnik, the ice roads that cross the Siberian wilderness during the long winter months.

The Boy with a Camera for a Face

A allegorical fairy tale about a boy born with a camera instead of a head, told in rhyme.

Borrowed Time – by Andrew Coats & Lou Hamou-Lhadj

American animation comes out of its comfort zone and tells the drama

FOCUS ON: Farnoosh Samadi and Ali Asgari

Interview with the directors behind "The Silence," the Italian entry in Competition at Cannes 2016

Random Stop

A gripping first person POV reenactment of the tragic last moments of the life of a police officer.

Larry – by Jacob Chase

A man, a parking lot, a friendship: a tender and scary tale about our loneliness

The Provider

Black comedy, horror, dystopia and science fiction come together in Brianne Nord-Stewart's short.

Online Premiere: The Show MAS Go On

Artist Rä di Martino celebrates MAS , the Roman famed "department stores of the people", with a art-doc poised between fiction and reality.

Mobile Film Festival 2018: Call For Movies

Bruno Smadja created the festival in 2005 to discover and support talented young directors on a very simple principle: 1 mobile, 1 minute, 1 film

“My Self”: the intimate diary of Jennifer Medina

The selfie generation seen by the young Venezuelan artist's eyes.

Expo

Science fiction and melodrama come together in this story of loss, loneliness and survival.